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Show i HAMMER SLAYER GUILTY, STATE 1TT11I! SAYS Spells of Epilepsy Declared Faked; Asks Eye for Eye LUS ANG ELKS. Cal.. Nov 11. j Armistice day, aIUi nu session of her I trial on the charge of having beaten .Mrs Alberta Treniaine MeadQWS t. death Willi a hummer, found Mrs. I Clare Phillips resting in her cell In the Los Angeles county jai i ft. r hav-i hav-i Ing Inyird pro'tecutinn council Friday -.isW tiro jury to find hn- guilty of first degri e murder ''Jealousy was the moUNre fr the murder," declared V Maxwell Burke, deputy district attorney in hLs opening open-ing argument to the Jury, "and to find a person guilty of murder you I need nothing but the motive and the fart that th crime wos committed." "Do you think the defendant Is the eight-year-old moron the defense claims she is?" I "Everything shows she knew shoi j had committed a crime "There Is no denial that she killed! Mrs. Meadows "We know the defendant had fits, I but most of her fits were fits of an-1 i i-er i BET.IKVKS SPEJAA FAKES "I believe these 'spells of epilepsy I are fakes on the p.irt of those Inter-1 ! ested In trying to get fter out of this' j serious trouble. ' I know It will not be easy for v.oj to sav This woman Clara Phillips I is guflty of murder ln the first de-gree de-gree ' It has not heen easy for us to present this case, but it was our sworn duty. We ha e shown you a clear rase of murder In the first degree.) prompted by a motive, a smoldering; Pre of jealousy. All wo ask of you I hat Justice be d-ne an eve for an j eve. nn.l a tooth for a toct h ' |